Originally Posted by
cordelli
What they say in a telephone poll and what they do once they are in line are two totally different things. I've never seen anywhere near that amount of people opting out of a scan. The poll was based on results from 3,000 americians, not 3,000 americians who actually fly.
While it's an interesting number, I think the results would matter more if it was of people who fly or are standing in line.
It's an interesting number because it represents a pool of potential flyers, including once-in-a-blue moon flyers. A fair amount of traffic comes from this pool, one-timers, or infrequent flyers. This could represent numbers of people who won't fly now. They are total-opt outs; you'd never see them at the airports. Declining passenger numbers in excess of declining economic stats indicate that this is indeed happening.